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veying Secretary was party to Panama, went ashore, on the 10th, in Pensacola harbor, off the Florida coast. Admiral Alexieff, viceroy in the far east, arrived in St. Petersburg on the 10th. In anticipation of his arrival, the Nevsky prospect was crowded with sightseers. An hour after Judge Alton B. Parker arose, on the 9th, he was out on his farm at Esopus, N. Y., seeing that the plowing was properly done. Later he went for a horseback ride. Sergt. Thomas E. Allen, of the Third district, a member of the St Louis police department for over thir ty years, was found dead in bed, or the 8th, in his room at Eighth and Pine streets. Lord Lansdowne, in the absence o Premier Balfour, at the historic lor mayor's banquet, held in London, o the 9th, made a strong plea for peac and arbitration on behalf of the Brit ish government. Former Minister to Turkey Osca S. Straus, a member of The Hagu tribunal, expressed the belief, on th 11th, that a sudden termination of hos tilities in the far east is possible i the near future. Col. D. R. Anthony, the noted edito of the Leavenworth Times, and broth er of Miss Susan B. Anthony, th woman suffragist, died at his home i Leavenworth, Kas., on the 12th, o heart disease, aged 80. With the election returns still in complete, the plurality of Presiden Roosevelt in the nation, according t all indications on the 9th, will excee 1,500,000, the greatest plurality eve given an American candidate. The Japanese, on the 10th, assume the offensive on the left bank of th Hun river, and occupied three vil lages. The Russians, however, at tacked, drove them out and again es tablished their original lines ofdefens The Spanish embassy at London, o the 9th, authorized an emphatic denia of the report circulated by a new agency in the United States of the ar nouncement of the betrothal of Kin Alfonso to Princess Victoria of Cor naught. Lou Dillon smashed the world S un paced mile trotting record at the dri ing park at Memphis, Tenn., on th 11th, by completing a mile in two mir utes and one second. The former un paced record, 2:011/4, was held jointl by Lou Dillon and Maj. Delmar. National Bank Commissioner Sturd vant. on the 10th,repaid the depositor dollar for dallor, in the Elk Cit (Okla.) national bank, which failed la May. Cashier J. A. Mays, who wa charged with wrecking the bank, con mitted suicide in Texas after being a rested. The $40,000,000 of five per cent. bon issued by the Japanese government h been subscribed for three times OF by the Japanese people, according a cablegram received, on the 9th, i S. Uchida, Japanese consul at Ne York, from the department of finan in Tokio. The Chicago & Alton officials, ( the 7th, announced that they wou run free special trains for their et ployes from Bloomington to the S Louis World's tair grounds, on N vember 12. About 2,500 employes at their families will take advantage this offer. As the result of a gunshot wound his foot, caused by the accidental d charge of a weapon he was carryin 12-year-old James Alexander Ashle while hunting with his father and t older brothers near his home at o ford, Pa., died at the University h pital in Philadelphia, on the 7th. Alexander Sutherland, said to ha been the last survivor of the famo Balaklava "six hundred," died, on t 11th, at his home in Denver, Co where he had resided for 40 years. was the trumpeter who sounded t bugle call for the memorable char immortalized in verse by Tennyson On the proposal of the Italian m ister of foreign affairs, King Vic Emmanuel will sent to J. P. M gan, of New York, the insignia
